Improved combined call-bell and table-caster



, the standard. p

As represented in the drawings, I construct the l standard A of the caster with a hau'dle,B, of any con- Aveuieut or suitable form, either as a bar or loop, or of y to the purpose.

HENRY A.` nIEisfK ns,v

tenante Ao r VNEW rY ii Letters .Patent No; 97,617,- dated Decembe?` 7, 1869. y l

IMPRovED coMBrNEn :mnu-13am.` Arm TABLE-emersa.

The `Schelilule referred to in these Letters Patent. and making part ot the l'same I, HENnY A. DrEnKEs-cf the city, county, and

`State oi New York, have invented aj new and im-` proved Method of Combining a Gall-Bell with Table- "Casters, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to those devices in which a call-hell, gong, or any instrument of sound is comhined with the caster, and is an improvement on that' vfor which Letters Patent were granted me, October 5,

1869; `and i Itconsists ill-arranging the bell upon the top of the standard, and above the handle, where it is more accessihle for use, and sc conspicuous as at once to reveal its purpose, while it is protected from injury in liftinglor moving by the handle or bar below it, and it serves as a `graceful and symmetrical `termination to other shape, and` above it, with its axis in line with the standard, I attach a call-bell, c, which may be of the shape shown, or of any other forin and size adapted By this arrangement, the button d, by which the hammeris made to strike, is at thetop, with no surv rounding part to obstruct the approach of thehand to it; or, if it is operated by a finger-lever at the side, that, also, is equally accessible,

i A paramount object of my improvement is the prows-s tecton of the operating-mechanism of the bell from derangement and injury consequent on careless haudling,land :tt-the same time to have the bell in the vmost conspicuous and accessible position; and this is This forni of construction enables castersto be made at less expense, stronger, and moreelegant in appearance than when made in the ordinarymanner,there being fewer parts and greater simplicity of form.

I claim, as my invention- The arrangement of a call-bell, gong, or equivalent instrument of sound, above the handle of a table-cas ter, substantially as shown and described. I n witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

s HENRY A. DIERKES.

Witnesses:

KATE N. JONES, l q J. FRASER. 

